How to Make Brick Stairs in Minecraft
Brick Stairs
Brick Stairs turn Bricks blocks into walkable steps for staircases and sloped paths, crafting four stairs from every six Bricks blocks.
Description
Walking up Brick Stairs is faster than jumping the same height and adds no hunger exhaustion, while every jump adds 0.2 exhaustion. Placed Brick Stairs orient the half-block side toward the player, flip upside-down when placed against a block bottom, and merge with adjacent stairs into inner or outer corners automatically. The full production chain runs from clay balls: a furnace smelts each clay ball into one Brick item, four Brick items craft one Bricks block, and six Bricks blocks craft four Brick Stairs.
Block properties
| Item ID |
minecraft:brick_stairs
|
|---|---|
| /give command |
/give @p minecraft:brick_stairs
|
| Stackable | Yes (64) |
| Best tool | Pickaxe |
| Renewable | Yes |
| Hardness | 2 |
| Blast resistance | 6 |
Guide
How to get Brick Stairs in Minecraft
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1
Smelt clay balls into Brick items
Smelt each clay ball in a furnace to produce one Brick item.
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2
Craft Bricks blocks from four Brick items
Place four Brick items in a 2×2 square on the crafting grid to produce one Bricks block.
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3
Arrange six Bricks blocks in a stair pattern
Set three Bricks blocks down the left column, two more in the middle column below, and one in the bottom-right slot; the recipe yields four Brick Stairs.
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4
Cut stairs one by one in a stonecutter
A stonecutter turns one Bricks block into one Brick Stairs, which helps when every Bricks block should become a stair.
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5
Reclaim placed Brick Stairs with a pickaxe
Break placed Brick Stairs with any pickaxe to collect the block; breaking Brick Stairs without a pickaxe drops nothing.
Trail ruins generate Brick Stairs and Bricks blocks naturally, so one explored structure can replace several rounds of smelting and crafting.
How to craft this block
Bricks
x6
Frequently asked questions
Do Brick Stairs generate naturally in the world?
Brick Stairs generate as part of trail ruins since Java 1.20 and Bedrock 1.19.80. Bricks blocks also generate in ocean ruins, plains village armorer houses, and trail ruins.
Can Brick Stairs hold water?
Brick Stairs are waterloggable: placed inside water, a Brick Stairs block keeps the water in the same space as the stairs block.
Are Brick Stairs renewable?
Yes, Brick Stairs are renewable. Clay balls smelt into Brick items, four Brick items craft a Bricks block, and six Bricks blocks craft four Brick Stairs.
Are Brick Stairs flammable?
No, Brick Stairs never catch fire, and lava cannot set the block alight.
Do Brick Stairs block light?
The full-block faces of Brick Stairs stop light, while the open faces let light through the gaps.